Definition of geneticist in US English: geneticist
noun An expert in or student of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
‘geneticists have discovered a "thinness" gene’
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‘Clinical molecular geneticists spend their working lives finding, naming, and investigating genetic mutations.’ ‘A geneticist at the university is offering commercial genetic ancestry tracing to those who want to trace their genetic lineage back to Africa.’ ‘He established a scholarship honoring a popular geneticist who supported the New Mexico alfalfa industry.’ ‘The scientists, three molecular geneticists and an evolutionary anthropologist, say we are losing it because we have stopped using it.’ ‘For starters, this plant geneticist is developing low-sugar watermelons.’ ‘Should clinical geneticists be given access to medical records of dead patients without relatives' consent?’ ‘According to geneticists, the overwhelming majority of people who think they have American Indian forebears are wrong.’ ‘Our geneticists are studying these experimental fish to learn more about the information locked inside trout genes.’ ‘Geneticists pointed out that, in general, heritable traits show higher variability within populations than between them.’ ‘Scientists everywhere, mainly geneticists, do cloning of particular animals almost routinely.’ Pronunciation geneticist /dʒəˈnɛdəsəst/ /jəˈnedəsəst/